Reliability & Maintenance Engineer: Conveyors & Automation

OnTrac; Lockbourne (OH); On-site; USD 104,800 - 157,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Match

Flex Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Company Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

OnTrac is seeking a Reliability & Maintenance Engineer in Columbus to improve asset health and reduce downtime across facilities and conveyor systems. You will apply data-driven reliability methods, conduct structured failure analyses, and lead PM/PdM improvements across the site.

The role partners with design, operations, and quality teams to identify risks, analyze failures, and implement improvements that strengthen maintenance effectiveness and equipment performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Thorough knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in reliability and maintenance engineering for facilities, conveyor systems, automated material handling, or sortation equipment.

Responsibilities

• Build reliability methods and measures: Develop the methods and metrics used for reliability analysis based on product specifications, tolerances, and operating standards.
• Lead structured failure analysis: Apply FMEA, fault tree analysis, and root cause analysis to identify problems, quantify risk, and determine corrective actions.
• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance: Drive PM/PdM improvements for conveyors, sortation systems, facility equipment, and supporting infrastructure to reduce downtime and improve uptime.
• Create risk-based mitigation plans: Develop failure mitigation strategies rooted in risk and asset criticality to prevent repeat issues and strengthen long-term reliability.
• Improve designs, processes, and test standards: Propose new or revised designs, manufacturing processes, and testing specifications that apply best practices and increase reliability.
• Own reliability and maintenance performance reporting: Develop, track, and report KPIs including downtime, PM completion, schedule compliance, asset performance, and maintenance backlog

Skills

FMEA

Root cause analysis

Fault tree analysis

Conveyor systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Job description

OnTrac is seeking a Reliability & Maintenance Engineer in Columbus to improve asset health and reduce downtime across facilities and conveyor systems. You will apply data-driven reliability methods, conduct structured failure analyses, and lead PM/PdM improvements across the site.

The role partners with design, operations, and quality teams to identify risks, analyze failures, and implement improvements that strengthen maintenance effectiveness and equipment performance.